but none of them seemed to be a good fit for me (not much documentation, not the right level of keywords, not very active…). Though, the second one was built on “requests library” which seemed to be worth looking at.

Requests Python Library is not Robot or Test oriented but the feature support is very wide, the use guide is very detailed and the community looks very active.

Here is a simple example of how to use it with Robot Framework:
(we use jstontest.com that sends back a json object when we do a get)

Did a little presentation of Robot Framework at Human Talk Grenoble about Robot Framework. Quite difficult to sell that kind of tool to an audience into web development with no or few experience of tests. This is more easy when talking to bigger team working on more traditional (old) softwares. Have to understand more about the possibilities and constraint of web development to understand how Robot could be used for the business/functional logic of the web projects.